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Archive Dive: Tell It Like It IS … or How It Ought To Be?

Today’s Archive Dive is from June 12, 2014, when I wrote about a fundamental difference in fiction-writing philosophies: Should you tell it like it IS… or should you tell it like it OUGHT to be?

In other words, should you let prevailing societal “norms” inform your universe or should your universe inform society?

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